From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 07:40:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64A2D106566C for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:40:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slackmails@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gy0-f182.google.com (mail-gy0-f182.google.com [209.85.160.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 171028FC13 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gya6 with SMTP id 6so2610564gya.13 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:40:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=v/fjclVeTzNJBJWQRFyUhJKavRm5p/FNSl7NYsze1ms=; b=hNEcF+gKLwORTTRdydAJPYokSmoCgpIC/X0Ei7TGBGmP/J//rFP4xCjFFHrwpgCIKp P2g/lUvHcyDBpfuBsy53UiCtNFA/5r5YGmQqHeog/gRFNZov6Tv34pGhyhP/BR6TnySf DGE4eK7wE+UpNSx0Omlsa2aG6shuV3P/GV1so= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=glWOgwjKgZfP2hjdk8+pHGMmF6V21SkWxk8ekpzFq4+ln7XYHgnqQ2AXIllvPnGWvL QheFNZS4Frcs+ZwElt47n6VB8yRzxSg59E4H9IRpTUo3JqMYb8Ig8UW5Cx43cZrOdLOJ WC8fkIsvUQycV1z8MjPYCaMj8b7vINrnj5t/M= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.91.164.6 with SMTP id r6mr5413938ago.187.1288424408006; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.139.12 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:40:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:40:07 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jerrin To: Adam Vande More Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving to RAID1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:40:10 -0000 Hi, I get this error now when trying to insert the disk # gmirror insert gm0 /dev/ad14 gmirror: Provider ad14 too small. found this error is being mentioned before on the mailing lists. hard disks are of the same size.couldn't find a solution for this one. Any way to fix this? Thank you Rihaz On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:49 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jerrin wrote: > >> i have a freebsd(7.3) dedicated server with one hard disk.It have >> partitions >> for root and swap only.I want to setup RAID1 by adding one more hard >> disk.i >> found in freebsd handbook about setting up RAID1 >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html .I only have remote >> access to the server.Will i lose data by doing it? > > > If you do it correct way you will not. It's possible if you make a mistake > and do something like mirror the wrong way you would. > > >> Anyways to make sure in >> the procedure of setting up raid1 that i shouldn't have to go single user >> mode or change something at the boot prompt when rebooting after this is >> setup. >> > > Again if you do it incorrectly you may need to resort to these procedures. > However if you follow the handbook accurately you should be fine. > > -- > Adam Vande More >